Blake Shelton Quotes

When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

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• I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

  

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• I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

  

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• Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.

  

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• Grilling is an easy tradition to start at any age! To get started, one only needs a modest investment in equipment and a little bit of outdoor space.

  

  Barton Seaver
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• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

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• Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?

  

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• Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• I want to win football games.

  

  Victor Cruz
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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

  Val Kilmer
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• Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

  

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• Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'

  

  Sam Smith
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• Clearly, humans will always have a role to play in emergency response for law enforcement. But if there's an emergency, if there's a 911 call, the question is, do you want a human dashing off to respond to it right away?

  

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• For some reason, I spent my early thirties reading as much postwar Hungarian fiction as I could get my hands on.

  

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• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

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• So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

  

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• People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.

  

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• Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.

  

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• The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

  

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• I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.

  

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• Everybody wants all of our businesses to have no restrictions in any country, but even in Canada, in order to distribute home entertainment, you need to follow the Canadian rules, and it's just about as hard to do business there as it is in China.

  

  Jon Feltheimer
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• Home is the first school for us all, a school with no fixed curriculum, no quality control, no examinations, no teacher training.

  

  Charles Handy
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• I think when you live with somebody, you grow up. You learn a lot about yourself through somebody else.

  

  V V Brown
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• When I think about the songs I might record, I ask myself, 'Can I picture anybody I know back home sitting in their truck cranking this up?'

  

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